AIDS 2010, the 18th International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna later this year, will focus on marginalised groups living with the disease, such as injecting drug users in Eastern Europe, organisers said Wednesday. "AIDS 2010 will be the conference for people without a voice," the head of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibe, told a press briefing here. "The rapidly growing HIV ...

African trucking routes, long known as pathways for spreading HIV across borders, have been drawn in new maps that also direct drivers to clinics that treat AIDS, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. About 20,000 maps have been printed and distribution began last week, Catherine Larkin, a spokeswoman for the project, told AFP. English maps for East, West and Southern Africa ...

Britain announced Tuesday one million pounds in aid to South Africa for the purchase of condoms to tackle HIV and AIDS in the world's worst-affected country ahead of the 2010 World Cup. The money, equivalent to 1.1 million euros or 1.5 million dollars, is to bolster the host's condom supplies, a move health officials predict will ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although studies in Africa have shown that circumcision can lower the spread of HIV among heterosexuals, it may not do much to prevent infections among gay and bisexual men in Western countries, a new study suggests. A number of studies in African nations have found that circumcised heterosexual men were up to 60 percent less likely ...